View full size(Ryan Garza | The Flint Journal)Flint police speak with bystanders at the scene of a shooting on Roselawn Drive in Flint on Tuesday. A teenager was shot while allegedly trying to break into a home on Roselawn near Cloverlawn Drive, according to police.

"She gives her heart to this neighborhood," said Kita Brown, 25. "As her neighbors, we're going to have to work with her on this, because it's not going to be easy. Sixteen years old — she's going to have to live with this for the rest of her life."

Brown described her next-door neighbor as a caring woman who visited and brought her food to comfort her after an uncle died a month ago.

"She's never done any harm to anybody," Brown said. "She plants flowers in my yard when she's doing her yard."

Brown believes the woman warned the teen clearly that she would shoot if he continued to enter the home before she fired.

Neighbors heard two shots and then saw the teen bleeding from the head on the woman's lawn.

The woman has not been back home since the incident, neighbors said.One neighbor said a block club meeting would be organized to show support for the woman when she returns.